butter

how to lure it fm its hiding place to freedom ? just before v close our office an hr ago , it flew in and hid in the inclusion of the ledge hanging below the ceiling . v used pole to draw it out but it only flew to the other side. once it flew down a chute like gap and sat at the bottom. next it hid behind a box …no matter what it was still in the office and v hv no choice but to shut it inside till tmw …what should v do? I suggested to inform AFCD, is it correct ? or should v call SPCA?
it got an olive shade to me, grey to white belly, no prominent strips on the belly. Black strips on wing tips. Bright round eyes with thin white rims



[ Last edited by butter at 18/12/2013 19:31 ]

sdavid

Probably best to leave the window opena nd let the bird fly out on its own.

butter

looks like a kind of flycatcher to me ... no need to go back to office today, so don't know what happened to it.
Last night, the colleagues worried that it might suffocate in the locked up office, though I believed it might not need much air to survive for the night.
side view
https://picasaweb.google.com/101 ... 5958690705756489090
top view
https://picasaweb.google.com/101 ... 5958690802206013298

[ Last edited by butter at 18/12/2013 19:33 ]

lalan

please call 1823 to AFCD if it still unable to fly.

ajohn

It looks like an Asian Brown Flycatcher to me.

I don't think a lack of air would be a problem - there should be plenty of air in an office for a small bird such as this.

The bigger problem is likely to be food. the bird will need to eat regularly, especially in the recent cold weather. Sadly, even in the wild an insect-eating bird like this may not find enough food to survive this cold weather - this is one reason that many species migrate south.

I hope it was able to get out of the office yesterday to look for more food. I agree with Dave that the best idea in a situation like this is to open a window and try to get the bird to fly out on it's own

butter

my colleague said there're feathers found in the office the day after ... it wasn't seen/heard anymore (it never chirped even when it flew around in the office the other day) ... regular pest control was done yesterday.
there're bats flying around the office when dusk falls ... which is situated by the hillside ... lots of mosquitoes and other insects are found, perhaps that's why that bird came.